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Yes, Palm OS is dead...
in the same way that COBOL is dead.
That doesn't mean that PalmOS devices won't be sold. And it doesn't mean that development for the Palm OS isn't being done.
What it means is that the innovation and exciting stuff isn't being done for Palm OS as much as it used to be.
For PDA stuff, Palm OS still whips WinCE easily and I have yet to see a reasonably useful WinCE with comparable battery life to my Palm.
But users today want a palm-sized-PC, not a PDA. They want the features that they get on their desktop (like video, for example). They want file formats that don't need to be converted between device and desktop. PalmOS doesn't do well for those things.
So Palm OS needs to be updated. And it is in the Access Linux Platform.
Palm OS is dead! Long live the Palm OS!
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